§ 123. Expenditure from tribal funds without specific appropriations

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1916

   An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota

   Pub. L. 64–125 § 27 · 39 Stat. 123

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 123

   (May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 27, 39 Stat. 158.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 27, 39 Stat. 158.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 27. On the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives estimates of the amounts of the receipts to, and expenditures which the Secretary of the Interior recommends to be made for the benefit of the Indians from, all tribal funds of Indians for the ensuing fiscal Total receipts. year; and such statement shall show (first) the total amounts estimated to be received from any and all sources whatsoever, which will be placed to the credit of each tribe of Indians, in trust or otherwise, Treaty agreements. at the close of the ensuing fiscal year, (second) an analysis showing the amounts which the Federal Government is directed and re-quired by treaty stipulations and agreements to expend from each of said funds or from the Federal Treasury, giving references to the existing treaty or agreement or statute, (third) the amounts which Disbursements recommended. the Secretary of the Interior recommends to be spent from each of the tribal funds held in trust or otherwise, and the purpose for which said amounts are to be expended, and said statement shall show the amounts which he recommends to he disbursed (a) for per capita Per capita. Salaries. Counsel fees. Provisos. No payment without specific appropriation. Exceptions. payments in money to the Indians, (b) for salaries or compensation of officers and employees, (c) for compensation of counsel and attorney fees, and (d) for support and civilization: Provided, That thereafter no money shall Five Civilized Tribes not affected. be expended from Indian tribal funds without specific appropriation by Congress except as follows: Equalization of allotments, education of Indian children in accordance with existing law, per capita and other payments, all of which are hereby continued in full force and effect: Provided further, That this shall not change existing law with reference to the Five Civilized Tribes.

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